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2 Indians plead guilty to smuggling phony cigarettes into US
Updated On: 24 January, 2018 12:41 PM IST | Washington | PTI
Two Indians and a India-based company today pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle counterfeit cigarettes into the United States. Federal prosecutors said the counterfeit cigarettes bore "substantially indistinguishable" trade name and marks of the


Two Indians and a India-based company today pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle counterfeit cigarettes into the United States. Federal prosecutors said the counterfeit cigarettes bore "substantially indistinguishable" trade name and marks of the American brand of Newport cigarettes. Abhishek Shukla and Harish Shabhai Panchal each face up to five years in jail and USD 2,50,000 in fines followed by supervised release of up to five years.
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